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The Lost Dress of Elizabeth I (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Sep 2019
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I like the videos of how people dressed in different eras, so this was a treat!
Karadeniz
Sep 2019
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northoftheborder
(7,610 posts)1. Fascinating discovery!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)2. Must kick for later
murielm99
(31,479 posts)3. Wonderful story!
LudwigPastorius
(10,962 posts)4. Did she lose it behind the dirty clothes hamper?
Sometimes I overshoot it too.
More_Cowbell
(2,205 posts)5. Or it was hanging on her exercise cycle nt
LudwigPastorius
(10,962 posts)10. Ye Olde Peloton?
That sounds about right. They always end up as a clothes rack.
struggle4progress
(120,425 posts)7. She gave it to her maid, who donated it to the family church
where it was converted into an altar cloth, which was finally put on display, until conservation work revealed it was originally an incredibly expensive sixteenth century dress
marble falls
(62,403 posts)8. It was a laundry slip-up.
LudwigPastorius
(10,962 posts)9. Ah...the dry cleaners lost it.
I've been there.
Karadeniz
(23,466 posts)6. I like the videos of how people dressed in different eras, so this was a treat!
zentrum
(9,866 posts)11. Kick.